The newly opened Titanic Museum in Belfast has been getting a lot of coverage here in Japan. NHK's morning news carried an extended report on the opening and the Hokkaido Shimbun published a fairly comprehensive piece on it too. I'm sure there were features in other newspapers as well, but as we are fierce Ezo separatists here in Muroran, we don't bother with the national papers. There all about government and business and industry and arts and other big city shite, with absolutely nothing about bare-handed salmon fishing at dawn on the Shibetsu river, or the earthy joys of forest clearing deep in the Hidaka mountains.
Anyway, it would be worth the museum's while to cash in on this free publicity and attract some of that auld Yen. Though the expectation from this side is that Leonardo Di Caprio would be on hand to personally greet each of the Japanese visitors. And that there would be a karaoke bar on the premises where they could all belt out endless renditions of 'My heart will go on'.
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